The companies that signed the latest brief include Airbnb, Dropbox and Kickstarter.

More than 60 tech firms including Apple, Google and Facebook reportedly backed away from the legal battle against US President Donald Trump's new travel ban.

According to a Reuters report, tech companies such as Microsoft, eBay, Intel, Netflix and Twitter had signed on to the earlier brief but decided not to back a lawsuit that aimed to block Trump's latest executive order.

On Tuesday (14 March) a legal brief that was filed in the federal court of Hawaii listed support of 58 companies. However, 127 signatories had backed a brief that was filed in an appeals court last month following Trump's earlier executive order. It is unclear as to why only a few companies signed on to the brief this time.

Meanwhile, the companies that signed the latest brief include Airbnb, Dropbox and Kickstarter.